Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to the 19th Century, or even to the 1920s, you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country . . . What we ought to do is to stop bellyaching about the past . . . and start making it everlastingly clear to the country where we stand...
High Center. Where did the Republican Party stand? The response to Tom Dewey indicated that the question was far from settled. Two days later in Detroit, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg tried his hand...
Shopkeepers and restaurant men clicked their abacuses busily. The price of food climbed hourly until dinner for three at the Eighth Heaven atop the New Asia Hotel cost $33 U.S. Not all could stand the pace. Said one minor government official: "All my family has had to eat for a week is bananas...
...village of Nakago, a bluff old man with a Dewey mustache said: "The food is not good now-but still people do not die off. Will the peace conference let Japanese migrate abroad? As things stand now, there seems nothing to do but go somewhere...
...Zachariades. The two men work closely together, but bad feeling between them dates from a Communist mass meeting at Athens' Olympic Stadium in 1945. Zachariades was the principal speaker, and loannidies was in charge of security arrangements. When he appeared, Zachariades was carried to the speaker's stand on the shoulders of a group of young Communists, picked by Uncle John. The loudspeaker, which had been blaring Communist slogans, fell silent. Tensely, the crowd waited for Zachariades to speak the ringing words that would reveal the road to destiny. But another voice came over the loudspeaker. Said Uncle...